"Metal Gear Solid" or "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell"?

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CommonMan said:

rocketpig said:

CommonMan said:
I have only played Double Agent of the Splinter Cell series, but it is by far a better stealth action game than MGS4. MGS4 has an awesome story with crazy things happening that make you go WTF! but the gameplay is sooooooooo bad.

Just wait til you play an SC game from Ubi Montreal (versus Shanghai for Double Agent). They're VASTLY superior games. The original SC and Chaos Theory were Ubi Montreal games, as is Conviction.

I'll put it this way: you know how awesome it was to sneak into that Shanghai skyscraper in DA? Well, the original SC and CT were that way for the ENTIRE GAME. The gameplay was so much better than MGS at the time that it was ridiculous.

Funny, that was one of my favorite moments in gaming, when you're hanging off the side of the skyscraper (in DA) and the guy leans out the access door and you yank him out, you can watch him all the way down. I chuckled.

Should I go back and play the originals then?

Edit: In honor of post 1234 I'm changing my avatar.

Definitely go back and play the old ones. Double Agent is probably the worst of them, and even it was still great. You could perform that kind of execution all the time in Chaos Theory, which also had the famous Spys vs. Mercs multiplayer.

Every Splinter Cell I've played has been quality. Sadly, a lot of people judge Double Agent from its 360 version, while the original Xbox version is said to be much better.

The old ones used to be that you had to play through long stretches until you hit a checkpoint. Everytime you hit a checkpoint you wanted to do a dance or something so you didn't have to go back another 15-20 minutes of gameplay. Running out of bullets happened frequently in the older games, for me anyway.